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00:00Previously on The Great Eight, the top eight drivers raced at Dragway 42 in West Salem, Ohio,
00:08for a chance at $10,000 and points toward the individual championship.
00:13Son of a bitch.
00:14Murder Nova and Kai Kelly.
00:18Murder Nova was paired up with Kai Kelly for the second week in a row in round one
00:22and put Kai on the trailer again.
00:24And then beat Robin Roberts in the semis to secure a spot in the finals for the second straight week.
00:38Lizzie Musi advanced to the semis after Damon Merchant red-lit in round one.
00:49And there were fireworks at the finish of Lizzie's semifinal race versus Kayla Morton
00:53when her hood scoop blew off.
00:55I'm surprised it made it that far.
00:57Me too!
00:58This led to a grade eight finals between Murder Nova and Lizzie Musi.
01:04Murder Nova won his second grade eight race in a row
01:07and collected 10 points towards the individual championship.
01:11And Murder Nova makes it two in a row!
01:16Now the top eight drivers heading into Pennsylvania
01:19will battle for another $10,000 and valuable points.
01:27Put your hands together for the grade eight drivers!
01:37Hey Maple Grove, how y'all doing today?
01:40We are at Maple Grove Raceway, located in Pennsylvania.
01:46This track opened its doors in 1962
01:49and is one of the 10 longest tracks in the country.
01:53Today, it's hosting the grade eight.
01:55Here's how it works.
01:56If you win the grade eight, you get 10 points.
01:58Plus, you also get $10,000.
02:01If you runner-up, you get seven.
02:03And if you make it to the semifinals, you will get three.
02:06Those points go towards an individual championship
02:08that will be worth $100,000 at the end of the season.
02:12All right, this is the grade eight drivers meeting.
02:15As you can see, though,
02:16there are nine of you in this grade eight meeting.
02:19I believe Axeman and Gates.
02:23Y'all are tied.
02:24So, are y'all going to draw a chip out of the bucket
02:27or are we going to figure out another way
02:28to decide who gets in the grade eight?
02:30I'll race it.
02:31Y'all are going to race to the spot off the trailer.
02:33I'll race it.
02:33Okay, so y'all are going to race.
02:34You don't get a test pass.
02:35The test pass is your race.
02:37Whoever wins that will then be in the grade eight.
02:39All right?
02:40All right, ladies.
02:42We want to draw last this time.
02:43Yeah, we're going to change it up.
02:45Oh, wow.
02:46Really?
02:46Yep, yeah.
02:47I wanted last.
02:48Go ahead, pick one.
02:49You can have the very last.
02:50And me and Lizzie will draw right before you.
02:52Yeah.
02:52Hey, that's a good, you know, middle of them all.
02:55Yeah.
02:56Okay, that didn't work like that.
02:58No, it didn't.
02:58We were just...
02:59That still drew each other.
02:59Oh, God.
03:01Christopher.
03:04Okay, where are my number ones at?
03:07Number ones, Nate Saylor and Kai Kelly.
03:11Oh, man.
03:12We drew Nate Saylor first round.
03:14I didn't want to draw Murder Nova because I felt like he was in our heads.
03:17We reached in there and drew a guy just as fast as him, and we've beaten Nate Saylor all year.
03:22So we know he owes us one.
03:24So that's one of them guys you don't want to draw.
03:26Nate, congrats on your win last week, by the way, mutational.
03:30Number twos.
03:32Robin Roberts and Lizzie Musi.
03:35Okay.
03:36First round, I end up drawing Robin Roberts.
03:40Robin, he's been running real good.
03:41But if you look in the great eight circle, there is no one you want to draw there.
03:45So I can't really...
03:46You have to be on your eight game no matter who you drop.
03:49Number threes.
03:51Lizzie, we're not doing that again.
03:53No, we're not.
03:53Like, come on.
03:54Murder Nova.
03:55We drew Murder Nova.
03:57It is a very tough matchup.
03:59He's won the last two great eights, and the last time we lined up, he beat me by just a smidge.
04:04But the time before that, I beat him by just a smidge.
04:08First, my fourth and final pair will be Damon Merchant versus the winner of David Gates and Axeman.
04:14Oh, wow.
04:15Oh, it's hot.
04:16You know who you're racing.
04:17Go back to pits.
04:18Get your car turned around.
04:18Y'all get one test pass except for Axeman and Gates who are racing.
04:26So how'd the chitner all deal go?
04:29Axeman, you know, I like.
04:30He's one of my favorites.
04:31He's cool as hell.
04:32Straight off the trailer?
04:33Straight off the trailer.
04:34Left lane.
04:35Left lane.
04:35And then whoever wins that runs through Damon, fourth pair of left lane.
04:42No, we're racing for the grade eight with Axeman off the trailer.
04:46Oh, okay.
04:46Okay.
04:48Last time we was in the grade eight was in Brainerd, Minnesota, and we won it.
04:51We beat Kai, we beat Axeman, and we beat Giuseppe in the finals.
04:55We won the $10,000.
04:57We're here today.
04:58We finally had some struggles that got us out of the grade eight, but we're right there back at it.
05:02We was one round away from securing it.
05:03But 50-50 chance, I feel lucky.
05:06I'm going to go up here and grab it.
05:07We're going to come on back and get this thing down through there.
05:11Got to cut it hard, Kevin.
05:14Track look all right?
05:16The track looks good.
05:17It's pretty thick.
05:18Is it?
05:19But it's, it's most spotty.
05:21It's peely.
05:21My biggest concern is water coming up.
05:24There's going to be .
05:25If you go over there like it's dry, but you go over there and sit there and rub your foot deep down in it.
05:31Yeah.
05:32Water comes back.
05:33Dang.
05:34It's going to be .
05:35Dang.
05:36Yeah.
05:37Racing off the trailer is always the hardest because you don't know the track.
05:39Use that first pass for all your data.
05:41You can fit, you can see every bump in the track, see when the car tried to spin and when it didn't.
05:46But I like the racing off the trailer.
05:48It shows who, who can get down and who can't.
05:52Again, folks, this is an off the trailer race for the eighth and final spot in the grade eight class tonight.
05:59All right, so we got David Gates in the left lane.
06:17Axeman, Larry Roach in the right.
06:22These two drivers tied in points.
06:25Only way to settle it is to race for it.
06:29And Axeman takes the win, so he will be racing in the grade eight.
06:56He will take that eighth and final spot.
06:58We raced it off the trailer, old school style.
07:03Best man one.
07:04We're going to go the rest of the night and figure this thing out, be ready for it tomorrow, so next week we'll be in.
07:09So we'll get us the rest of the night to do our testing and get it lined out with everything we're doing.
07:14And when we go to bed tonight, I feel like we'll be real confident in the morning for the first round.
07:18You want, you got to pull the data or you want me to?
07:20I got it.
07:20It feels like the front end's off the ground, so you could move the steering wheel thinking that, and it would go one way or another.
07:40You know what I mean?
07:41You know, we started off the season running through everybody in the grade eight.
07:44We jumped way out in points.
07:46In the last two weeks, we've had first-round exits.
07:49Oh, and Murder Nova knocks off Kai Kelly in the first round.
08:04Murder Nova all of a sudden decided to start doing good.
08:10And Murder Nova wins again against Kai.
08:14That's right, baby!
08:15It really didn't affect us in points because he's only got 20 points, and I still got 47.
08:21So as long as we don't screw it up from here on out, I think we still got a pretty comfortable lead
08:26because really I just got to worry about Murder Nova on his little killing spree he's doing
08:30because he keeps winning every weekend.
08:32He's going to catch me.
08:33But just like normal, Kai Kelly, drawing out of the bucket fashion,
08:37I go up there and I drill last week's MPK winner.
08:41How you doing, man?
08:42What's going on, man?
08:43I got a tough draw going in the first round, and that's pretty much the end of the story.
08:50Did you look at it?
08:51I'm looking at it, and I'm trying to figure out what's wrong with it.
08:54It felt like I broke a blower, but it's not broke.
08:58Yeah, like, it left good, and it was good until about 6 days, and it didn't do this, like, it just quits.
09:04Like, the motor didn't quit, the motor's running, but the motor's banging up against a rev limiter.
09:09Oh.
09:10Well, the grudge match against John Odom, we broke the transmission.
09:17So it left, it left hard, left straight, and the transmission gave out, started banging off a rev limiter.
09:25He said it's just banging off the rev limiter.
09:27This is your torque converter pressure.
09:29It comes up, comes up, that does this nasty-ass wall.
09:32This is transmission pressure.
09:33It makes a shift along the food.
09:34It's a second-year coupling, and it's just dead.
09:36Yep.
09:37Tranny.
09:38Okay.
09:38All right.
09:39All right, guys.
09:40We're going to have to take the tranny out.
09:42Broke a transmission, and that grudge hit.
09:45We just needed to focus on our grade 8, and here I got greedy, and we actually broke the transmission.
09:50So we have an hour to put a new transmission in the car.
09:52We're going to get started.
09:53Set it right here, guys.
09:54Just set it right here, guys.
10:05We broke a transmission, and that grudge hit.
10:10So we have an hour to put a new transmission in the car.
10:12We're going to get started.
10:13I think we can change the tranny in an hour.
10:17All right.
10:18When you want a spare transmission, you...
10:21Nothing comes exactly the way you have to have it.
10:25So all the changes we've made to this car, we've also made changes to transmission.
10:30So we had fittings that were wrong.
10:32We had plugs that were wrong, hoses that were wrong.
10:35So we had to steal everything off of the old transmission, put it on the spare.
10:40Have you changed bearings in it in a while?
10:41I have bearings.
10:43I guess I could yank it apart real quick, huh?
10:44I think somebody put on it, and you probably can't even.
10:50Huh?
10:50Oil pan fittings are completely different as well.
10:54What are you talking about?
10:57Oh, just pan fitting a bigger pan.
10:59Even just a fork.
11:01What about this one?
11:05It's like a different oil pan.
11:07This one's smaller, too.
11:08Yeah, he was trying to get time, but I don't think they're going to let him have time.
11:14So I'm getting ready to get in my car and push up.
11:16Nate comes over here and says that his transmission's bad in his car, and he's trying to change it.
11:21Well, normally, that's a 20- or 30-minute job.
11:24I'll just wait and see what happens.
11:35Somebody get under there and help him push that up.
11:37Oh, Dan is.
11:38What's up?
11:38Okay.
11:41Where's he at?
11:43Hurt something?
11:44Rookie transmission, so I don't know.
12:00Realistically, at least 20-30 minutes.
12:06Next time.
12:07Now you can take your time, guys.
12:09What's up?
12:13It sucks, but, I mean, there's no sense in crying over spilt milk.
12:18I mean, it's broke.
12:20I can't unbreak it.
12:21We have a spare.
12:22We're going to get it put in the car.
12:25At the end of the day, my safety and the safety of the guy in the other lane is more important
12:28to me.
12:29Excuse me, guys.
12:31Excuse me.
12:32Sorry.
12:32And I can tell you, this will be a learning lesson for me.
12:36We're going to take those transmissions out, and they will have all the same fittings,
12:40all the same lines, so I can literally take one out and dump it in.
12:43If I could have done that, we wouldn't have spent a half an hour, 45 minutes swapping everything.
12:48We'd have made first round grade eights.
12:50Jeff, Jeff.
12:52No, I tried.
12:53I got 20 more minutes, so.
12:55That's right.
12:56I appreciate you getting my pants, anyways.
13:00I got it in.
13:01There's no way I can get up here in time.
13:03We get up there, we wait in the staging range for 10 or 15 more minutes, and he finally
13:07pulls up and says, hey, man, I still got 20 or 30 minutes left.
13:11I'm not going to make it.
13:12You're going to competition by.
13:13So, finally get some good luck.
13:20All right, folks, here we go.
13:23Great eight, first round coming at you right now.
13:28Kai Kelly getting a break as Nate Saylor unable to make the call.
13:33So, Kai Kelly getting a bye run here in the first round.
13:50Kai Kelly, nice pass there in the left lane.
14:05So, he will move on to the next round of the grade eight.
14:09Kai didn't wait for him?
14:11No.
14:12Well, I don't think they were close either.
14:15So.
14:16I raced myself, but I didn't cross.
14:19I didn't red light, done everything right, and the car went fast.
14:22So, my team's on top of it, I'm on top of it.
14:24I feel like I cut a good light.
14:27I feel confident going into the second round for the first time in three weeks.
14:31We tried something we wouldn't have tried and took it, so it's going to make our car faster
14:34for the rest of the day, so it was all good.
14:37Luck, starting off with luck.
14:39Luck's always good.
14:45Thank you so much.
14:49Can I get a picture of you?
14:54I mean, my helmet is going to be dark.
14:57It's beautiful.
14:59This race, I actually feel a little bit better.
15:02The last race, I was not feeling so great.
15:04I was sleeping a whole lot.
15:06My treatments really knocked me down on my feet, but I kept going.
15:10It wasn't the greatest of a race for us in Ohio, but we're moving on to the next race.
15:15I feel confident.
15:16I think the car is going to make a really good run, so we just go up there and run our race.
15:20Hey.
15:20Thank you, guys.
15:24What?
15:24Did you get the grade A?
15:25Yes.
15:26I was in anyway.
15:27I was in.
15:27Oh, you were.
15:28I got meat and I got Lizzie.
15:30Man, we worry a lot about Lizzie because she can run really good.
15:33She's just really salty, so she's also really good on the tree, and so I want to do my job
15:39just right.
15:39She's been killing it.
15:40She's won two races in a row.
15:42She's pretty badass, and then she got a little bit inconsistent, so we don't know which Lizzie
15:46Musi we're going to see, but if she runs good, it's going to be super tough.
16:07All right, next pair.
16:09This first round of the grade A over in the right lane.
16:11And that is going to be Robin Roberts, Robin Roberts in the right lane, going up against
16:15Lizzie Musi in the left.
16:41Robin Roberts takes the win.
16:48Nice job.
16:49Robin on the tree, never looked back.
16:55I missed it by a hair on the tree, but not enough for him to, like, come out on me like
17:01he did.
17:02So he was definitely pulling ass.
17:05I was probably right there with him, but, like, a little past 60 foot, he was, like,
17:09pulling real hard, and he, like, stayed there, and I stayed where I was.
17:13I don't know.
17:14Just sucks going out first round again.
17:16We've been having, it's been rough last two races, and I don't want to make it three.
17:21We still got Imitational coming up, but we've got to get a little bit faster, because apparently
17:26Robin's flying.
17:27Good job, Robin.
17:28You're on it.
17:31Good job.
17:33Good race.
17:34Yep.
17:34See you.
17:35Okay.
17:37Oh, thank you.
17:42So I've been in two grade eights, and I've won them both, you know, so I don't know if
17:46that's a good thing or a bad thing right now, because in my mind, there's a lot of pressure
17:51on me to go out and do good again.
17:53Right now, we're sitting in fourth.
17:55We're still a long ways behind Kai, so at this point, we have to get points every grade
18:01eight if we're going to catch Kai.
18:02I think I, yeah, I do got to be pushed back.
18:10Here we go.
18:10Got it?
18:11We have a little problem that we can't find.
18:15You know, I'm having a hard time right now balancing my life, if we're going to be honest.
18:19A lot of people stayed and tested last week at Dragway 42, and I would have loved the opportunity
18:24to do that, but, you know, right now I'm struggling with being a full-time mom and a full-time racer,
18:30and I had to go home and watch my baby play baseball, and, you know, if I lose first round
18:34because I made that decision, then so be it.
18:36But I'm doing the best I can.
18:38All right, over in that right lane, backing up the pro-charged Mustang, that is Ms. Kayla
18:54Morton going up against Murder Nova.
18:57Murder Nova there in the left flank, has won two grade eight events in a row, looking to
19:04make it three.
19:06Going to have to get around Kayla Morton though first here in this first round.
19:10All right, over in that right lane, backing up the pro-charged Mustang, that is Ms. Kayla
19:35Morton going up against Murder Nova, has won two grade eight events in a row, looking to
19:43make it three.
19:44Going to have to get around Kayla Morton though first here in this first round.
20:05All right, Murder Nova going to get the win there.
20:16Kayla Morton on a pass, but the car made a hard move across the center.
20:21That was abrupt.
20:22My God.
20:24I let go of the button.
20:31I looked over, and of course Kayla's there.
20:33Her car's 60 foot's really well, and it's 330's really well.
20:37It was pretty neck and neck.
20:39Then all of a sudden, she fell back.
20:41I didn't know what happened.
20:42Are you okay?
20:43Yeah.
20:44What happened?
20:45I'm...
20:46Did you not make one?
20:47I took out all the cones and got crazy.
20:49Oh no.
20:50Dude, like, this thing is wild.
20:54You've been fighting this car for the past few rounds.
20:58She is just extremely temperamental right now, hard to control.
21:02Anyways, good job, babe.
21:03Good job.
21:05Y'all will figure it out.
21:07Mess.
21:08It's all good.
21:09This thing is just being a complete bitch, honestly.
21:12It's been that way since 42.
21:13I'm just having to drive it every pass, and like, just not fun right now.
21:17But we'll figure it out.
21:18We'll get it back, get it up on the sands, look underneath, and then make a test pass.
21:23But Shawn deserves that win for sure.
21:25But we were right with him until we weren't.
21:27I'm gonna end up crashing this piece of .
21:34Kinda wanna roll it back and get the motor out of the sun, put this back on that side like we usually do.
21:41Lou, will you do the shoots real quick?
21:45Please?
21:46I gotta clean up all this .
21:50We're gonna have to get on top of this car, make sure that, you know, everything's right, everything's ready.
21:56You know, we slipped up a little bit last week, but, uh, the car's hauling ass.
22:00It feels good, so I feel like we can get a handle on it and haul ass here.
22:05All right.
22:06Looks good.
22:07How's it feel?
22:08About 200, 250, well, somewhere up through there.
22:09I felt that chatter, probably top of the first.
22:10Right.
22:11Probably shatter a little.
22:12And then it started back strolling.
22:13And then, I don't know, the last 100 feet it just calmed, it was calmed.
22:14But it probably might, I don't know, you probably, you know, I don't know if you'd set it like that or not, but it's...
22:15Yeah.
22:16Uh, yeah.
22:17I was pretty conservative on the fuel and timing, just to keep it alive.
22:23We gotta race all weekend.
22:24Yeah, no, it actually, I mean, it made a hell of a pass.
22:38I told Sarah, if I have to drive this truck the rest of the year and we can go test her in a week,
22:41me, man.
22:42That pays off.
22:43It does.
22:44Yeah, nah.
22:45For the whole car to be new and a different engine, rear end, converter, and then roll off the trailer and...
22:52Yeah.
22:53I'll take it.
22:54I'll take it.
22:55Racing Damon, you never know.
22:56Last time I raced him, I outran him the time before.
22:58He outran me, so we back and forth all season.
23:00Most of us have Hemis.
23:01He doesn't have a Hemi, so I give him props for making that car so fast without having to go to him.
23:05Yeah.
23:06Yeah.
23:07Yeah.
23:08It's gonna be tough.
23:09All right, folks.
23:10Last pair coming at you.
23:11That right lane, that's gonna be Damon Merchant.
23:12Going up against Axeman.
23:13There it, Roche.
23:14They're in the left lane.
23:15This will be the last pair of the grade eight first round.
23:17Yeah.
23:18Yeah.
23:19Yeah.
23:20Yeah.
23:21Yeah.
23:22Yeah.
23:23Yeah.
23:24Yeah.
23:25Yeah.
23:26Yeah.
23:27Yeah.
23:28Yeah.
23:29Yeah.
23:30Yeah.
23:31Yeah.
23:32Yeah.
23:33Yeah.
23:34Yeah.
23:35Yeah.
23:36And Axeman takes the win.
23:47Nice pass from both cars, but Axeman moving on to the next round, nice job.
24:01But Axeman moving on the next round. Nice job
24:10I took my time getting in and grab the button it rocked really hard knocked out the salt ball
24:16Let go of the button didn't go red at the 330 was ahead of him
24:21He starts coming and clips me at the end damn it's hard out here. These guys are fast and
24:27We're losing by inches, so we're just gonna have to do something to pick it up out back and you know stay out in front of these guys
24:35It's that feeling when I let off the brake and I don't see him. I don't hear them
24:39And then like we're coming right up on the mile an hour cone
24:43And it's like I got this and they just clip us at the end man. That's I
24:50Don't know how many races we've lost like that this year, and I don't
24:53But the thing is like it's it's hard. That's what I was saying down there. It's kind of hard to get all
25:05You know down about it because the car is running like everybody's just leaning on it's go time
25:13And that's
25:15Maybe that's where our lack of experience in this is gonna start hurting us. I don't know. I mean, I know we're competitive, but
25:22They're starting to really lay into there
25:30That was an awesome race, I mean it's a great eight for a reason
25:33Shoot, I'm just glad to move on to the next round. Hopefully, hopefully I can take somebody out
25:39I'm gonna try anyway
25:41Yeah, I seen it coming up to 3 30. I seen a little corner my eyes ago. Oh, and then all of a sudden they just say
25:47Pulled off from it
25:49Hey
25:51Hey a lot of first round
25:53That's good. You didn't drop motor Nova. No, I didn't go on nobody
26:00All right, we're gonna go ahead and start our great eight semifinals drivers meeting folks. We started with eight drivers
26:05We are now down to four
26:08First and foremost
26:10Murder Nova still in the show got his win there in the first round murder Nova looking to make it three in a row
26:16for grade eight wins
26:18for grade eight wins also
26:20current grade eight points
26:22leader Kai Kelly still
26:24Second round
26:26Made the second round. Good job Kai. It was a tough race for you there man
26:30That other lane was empty, but you you made a good pass nonetheless
26:34Unfortunately, Nate sailor unable to get his car turned around after whatever he broke
26:39So now no free wins this round as you got some tough competitors standing next to you got axe man and Robin Roberts as well
26:46Two very fast drivers. Well hell. Let's go ahead and draw chips. See who's racing who here in this semi-finals round
26:54My number one step up
27:02Kai Kelly versus axe man, which means my second pair will be Robin Roberts versus murder Nova
27:12All right y'all you know who you're racing you know what you got to do go back to the pits get your cars turn around and bring them up here to the staging lanes
27:16I don't want to draw none of y'all. I like that competition by deal I got last round. That was nice. Yeah
27:22So you got a race axe? Yeah. He might take good passes. Yeah me and axe man decided we was gonna stand by each other so we wouldn't have to pick murder Nova Robin Roberts
27:26And y'all picked each other and they yeah they told us uh, yeah, you're a fool that ain't gonna work it worked
27:32We wanted to race each other feel like we got a better chance with us than them two fat
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28:00I'm a man
28:01What you think Motor Man?
28:02We're ready
28:03So all season Kyle been killing it with the Jenga Lang
28:05I mean he's been hurting everyone's feelings
28:06But the last race or so, Jenga Langs has been breaking parts
28:09He popped the blower
28:10I mean it's just been part failure
28:13About every time takes him out of the race
28:15But still I'm not going to underestimate him because I know
28:17He's going to have that hot rod turned up to try to pit me out
28:20So he did make a good lick in the left lane?
28:22Yeah
28:23So, he's been in the left lane, what, twice? Three times.
28:27Yeah, dang. You got to be used to that lane.
28:29Kyle's number one in the grade eight.
28:31I'm number three. He's about 20 points ahead of me.
28:33So, if I can take him out, that's just another point or two I can pull off.
28:36And if I can pull the wind off, hey, two winds and I've tied him.
28:41So, that's actually the game plan.
28:53Great eight semifinal starts now. We got two pairs here.
28:59First pair coming at you right now over in the right lane, that is going to be Axeman.
29:03Larry Roach, Axeman there in the right lane, back in the game-changer Mustang up.
29:07And in the left lane, that will be Kai Kelly, riding that Regal current points leader in the grade eight.
29:23And Axeman will take the win. Kai Kelly breaks the blower belt right on the hit.
29:45What's that, man?
29:47Whew! That feels a lot better.
29:51So, me and Kai rolled in. I knew I was going to have my hands pulled.
29:54The light turned green. I turned loose that trans brake.
29:57The game-changer set me back. I said, dang.
29:59I get to the finish line, roll around. I was amazed at how fast the car ran.
30:03I got to looking. There was no Kai.
30:05Then when everyone rolled up, I said, what happened to Kai?
30:07They said he broke the belt on the starting line.
30:09So, the racers won right there.
30:12Dang.
30:14Sucks, man.
30:16I can understand that we was running them bitches 20 runs or something, but that sucks.
30:19Yeah.
30:21When you buy a box of blower belts, you're supposed to get 12 passes out of a blower at a minimum.
30:28And the first belt we put on, it broke at like seven passes.
30:32The second belt shredded in half at like six passes.
30:35And then that one just broke at nine passes.
30:38So, we're going to take that box of belts and the whole box, because that's stupid, man.
30:43A $250 belt costs you 10 grand, you know?
30:48I really felt like I had an opportunity to be in the finals tonight, and then some dumb like that.
30:53I hate that.
30:54That is the hardest way to lose.
30:56I might probably put some used ones in there.
31:00You got that brand new box, man.
31:05Yeah.
31:09Hey, Brian.
31:10Let's set the torque wrench up.
31:13105.
31:15Man, I drew Murder Nova for the semifinals.
31:17What a badass.
31:19He's won two in a row.
31:20He was in the finals last week in the Invitational Light.
31:22He's just on a roll.
31:24This is going to be tough.
31:25Should be good.
31:26I put one flat, and that ARV made it longer.
31:30See how that works.
31:33Hopefully, it takes away that little right off the head.
31:37It just takes a little left move, and let's see if we can get rid of that.
31:41I think our cars are quite similar.
31:43I mean, we've both got ProLine MH7s, so there's so much to say.
31:47There's a lot of parity here.
31:49Our runs are neck and neck, and so let's just see.
31:55All right, I'm going to go ahead and get in.
32:02All right.
32:03We went up, and we draw Robin Roberts.
32:05You know, we've been here before.
32:07What the , man?
32:10I raced Robin in the last grade eight, and it was actually the first time we ever outran him.
32:15Everybody said he made a killer pass on his first one, but you know, every car up here is fast, and got to take them out one at a time.
32:23All right, folks, last pair here in this great eight semifinals over in the right lane.
32:35That is going to be Robin Roberts.
32:37Robin Roberts backing up that blue Firebird there in the right lane, and his competitor over in the left lane.
32:44That is going to be Murder Nova.
32:46Murder Nova in the left lane, looking to make it three in a row.
32:49And Robin Roberts gets the win.
33:17So your grade eight finals will be Robin Roberts versus Axeman.
33:24That was a good race, dude.
33:26That was a killer race, man.
33:27My God.
33:28Nice job, brother.
33:29That light was long as .
33:31Wasn't it?
33:32Holy .
33:33It was, dude.
33:34Nice job, man.
33:35Hey, that was next, dude.
33:37You did a lot.
33:38I feel like I made a pretty good one, and I wasn't catching you.
33:42Is that right?
33:43Yeah.
33:44Yeah, you made a good look.
33:45No doubt about it, man.
33:46Appreciate that.
33:47The light was long.
33:48I see a flicker green, and I'm off.
33:52So we're rolling out, and we just edged him at about 60, and it just stayed there the whole way.
33:58And I quit paying attention because I wanted to go straight as an arrow.
34:01I knew if we faltered or moved at all, he'd be around us.
34:04And I thought he'd have a top-end charge.
34:06Just quite didn't have enough, and we got lucky.
34:08And I mean, it's big to beat him because he's on such a roll.
34:11For us, though, to get into the finals of this grade eight, I just wanted to be in the grade eight.
34:16Now we're in the finals of the grade eight.
34:17Now we're going to win it.
34:19We've checked every dumb thing.
34:21Every dumb thing?
34:22Every dumb thing.
34:23Did you tighten the loose nut behind the wheel?
34:25I was like, no, no.
34:26Maybe.
34:27The loose nut behind the wheels, it always gets us.
34:32Every dumb thing.
34:33I don't know.
34:34It's been pretty tight so far, so...
34:35Yeah, it's done good today.
34:36Yeah, yeah, yeah.
34:37It's on the level.
34:38It's so hard.
34:39When you do that, that's when something's little, you know?
34:42Yeah, right.
34:43Really?
34:44Hey, last week we got family doing something different, so it'll be good.
34:48No, it's good.
34:49It's good.
34:50Real good.
34:51It's fine.
34:52It's our weekend.
34:53It's our weekend.
34:54It's our weekend.
35:03Hey.
35:04Hi, man.
35:05I like the way you wake up your crew.
35:07I just saw that video.
35:08Yeah.
35:09Always.
35:10Gotta get them in, you know, the mood, man.
35:13Quit laying around being late.
35:18It's time to get it.
35:19Oh, my God.
35:20Let's get beyond that intro to one of the shows.
35:33He got no shirt on and his toenails are painted red.
35:37Yeah.
35:38Yeah.
35:39It's time to game.
35:40We're gonna go ahead and do our great eight finals driver's meeting.
35:52We started with eight.
35:53We are now down to two.
35:54Yeah.
35:55Our two drivers are Robin Roberts and Axeman gonna race for $10,000.
36:01Here we go.
36:06Winner gets $10,000 and 10 points towards the individual championship, which as you know,
36:12at the end of the season, the driver with the most points gets $100,000.
36:16So a lot of money there for that.
36:18What we're gonna do here is we're gonna have a coin toss to decide who gets lane choice.
36:22Robin Roberts, call in the air, sir.
36:23Heads.
36:24Heads is the call.
36:25It is Tails Axeman's lane.
36:28You gonna let him know?
36:29Yeah, definitely.
36:30All right.
36:31So Axeman's gonna let Robin Roberts know.
36:33All right, folks.
36:34These two drivers gonna put on a show for $10,000.
36:36I hear you.
36:37Make some noise for Robin Roberts and Axeman.
36:39Good luck, bro.
36:40But most like that's gonna be left.
36:42I'm just saying.
36:43If they're laying up, I don't know.
36:44Okay.
36:45That's fine.
36:46Good luck.
36:47Next play.
36:51How you doing, man?
36:52I'm good, bro.
36:54I'm good, bro.
36:55You never know about this though, man.
36:59These guys are so fast, man.
37:01Hell, really.
37:03I always believe these cars run that fast.
37:05Blow my mind.
37:09Just do your thing, baby.
37:12Yeah.
37:13Look at the finish line.
37:14Okay?
37:15Tell Alan right.
37:16Same thing you did last time.
37:19Just look at the finish line.
37:20Yep.
37:21Man, I drew Axeman.
37:23Like, I haven't wanted to win anything like this in a long time.
37:27We've kind of just edged at it this year,
37:29and I've been on the edge in Tulsa and things like that.
37:31Now it's our time.
37:32All right, folks.
37:44Here we go.
37:45Grade eight finals.
37:47Over in the right lane.
37:48Backing up that blue Firebird.
37:49That is Robin Roberts.
37:51And in the left lane.
37:54Driving the game changer.
37:56Pro charge Mustang.
37:58That is Axeman.
38:00Axeman versus Robin Roberts.
38:0210,000 to win right here, right now,
38:06on this Maple Grove surface.
38:09And Robin Roberts.
38:38Robin Roberts gets the win.
38:40Robin Roberts is your winner for the grade eight tonight.
38:44$10,000 richer and 10 points towards the individual championship.
38:49Nice job.
38:50Yeah, yeah, yeah.
38:51It's all right.
38:55Whoo!
38:56So me and Robin, we left out of there.
38:58I didn't see it.
38:59My car starts moving to the left just a little.
39:01I tried to correct, but it kept holding left, left, left.
39:04First time in my life I ever seen the wall.
39:06I thought I could drive down it.
39:08So I said, I'm not letting out.
39:09Usually I lift it.
39:10So I just held my foot in the floor.
39:12And all of a sudden I felt the car come back to the right.
39:14I said, oh, we're off the wall.
39:16I come off the throttle.
39:17The throttle was stuck.
39:18I said, oh, man.
39:19I go from one death trap straight to the next.
39:21I get out, and we had a battle wound here before,
39:24like riding in the trailer.
39:26But then I started looking closer,
39:27and you could tell where it hit the wall here, here, here.
39:31So I actually did.
39:32I did hit the wall.
39:33I didn't really think I did.
39:34I can't believe it didn't hit the headers, though.
39:36No, you hit the back in.
39:37Oh, the back in?
39:39It was just the back split.
39:40You were driving.
39:42As far as we know, we've got to check out why the throttle is hanging.
39:45But that's part of racing.
39:52Yeah!
39:54Man, I'm so excited.
39:55Like, we've been looking forward to this.
39:56We've been trying to just get in the grade eight and stay there.
39:59We thought we could win some, but we could get in.
40:01And here we are.
40:02That just happened.
40:04Like, I can't believe it, but it just happened.
40:06Yeah, guys.
40:10Just winning in this grade eight is so incredibly difficult.
40:13There are eight of the best.
40:15Eight of your top points.
40:16They're the best.
40:17And there's no round that's easy.
40:18It's hard to get through this deal.
40:19This is probably the toughest.
40:20This is tougher to win than the Invitational.
40:22You might get a lucky round in the Invitational.
40:23There's no lucky round in this group.
40:25And we just won it.
40:29Oh!
40:30Yeah!
40:31Let's get a sip, baby!
40:32Woo!
40:33That's what I'm talking about!
40:35Rock and roll!
40:39And that's it for the grade eight here at Maple Grove Raceway.
40:42Robin Roberts won his first individual event of the year
40:45and is taking home $10,000
40:47and adding 10 points to his overall total.
40:51That gives Robin 13 points,
40:53but he has a long way to go to catch Kai Kelly.
40:56He was in the lead with 50 points.
41:01Next time.
41:03Kai, you may be in the lead right now.
41:06That might not be the case much longer.
41:08Y'all have messed up thoroughly
41:10because you have let Ryan Martin into the grade eight.
41:13So with you even being in this meeting,
41:15Kai Kelly right now is very nervous.
41:16I can tell.
41:17Still number one in points.
41:19I've been sucking the last three grade eights,
41:21so I'm trying to turn my luck around here.
41:28Well, it's not going to be the first grade eights
41:29so I'm trying to turn my luck around here.
41:30It's a very nice little bit.
41:32Yeah, it's a great day.
41:33That's a great day.
41:34I'm trying to turn my luck around here.
41:35We'll be waiting for the next few minutes.
41:36Oh, yeah.
41:37Let's get back to the next few minutes.
41:38So we will see what Mike's doing
41:39and I'm doing that.
41:40And you know,
41:41it's simply a slight edge.
41:42We've got a bit of two grade eights,
41:44so I'm trying to turn my luck around here.
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